Then I need to get to bed, dear readers.
"US plans to lower recommended fluoride levels; Cites spotting of teeth, bone abnormalities" by Mike Stobbe, Associated Press / January 8, 2011
ATLANTA — Fluoride in drinking water — credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay — may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some children’s teeth....
And that is not all.
Related: Fluoride in Water Linked to Lower IQ in Children
That explains a lot of what has happened in the society over the last 30 years.
About 2 out of 5 adolescents have tooth streaking or spottiness because of too much fluoride, a surprising government study found recently. In some extreme cases, teeth can even be pitted by the mineral — though many cases are so mild only dentists notice it. The problem is generally considered cosmetic.
Health officials note that most communities have fluoride in their water supplies, and toothpaste has it too. Some children are even given fluoride supplements....
But there are other concerns, too. A scientific report five years ago said that people who consume a lifetime of too much fluoride can lead to crippling bone abnormalities and brittleness.
That and other research issued yesterday by the EPA about health effects of fluoride are sure to reenergize groups that still oppose adding it to water supplies....
Fluoridation has been fought for decades by people who worried about its effects, including conspiracy theorists who thought it was a plot to make people submissive to government power.
No, they have the corporate media for that.
Related: De Plane! De Plane!
Plot or not, it explains the lethargic American public.
And when the lying, agenda-pushing, war-promoting media starts tossing around "conspiracy theorists" you know you have struck a nerve.
Good thing drugs are in the water, 'eh?
Those battles continue.
“It’s amazing that people have been so convinced that this is an OK thing to do,’’ Deborah Catrow said yesterday.
Yes, it is.
She successfully fought a ballot proposal in 2005 that would have added fluoride to drinking water in Springfield, Ohio.
Reducing fluoride would be a good start, but she hopes it will be eliminated altogether from municipal water supplies.
Catrow said it was hard standing up to City Hall, the American Dental Association, and the state health department. “Anybody who was antifluoride was considered crazy at the time,’’ she said.
You know what is crazy? Thinking three steel skyscrapers fell into their own footprints due to fire in contravention of the immutable laws of physics.
In New York, the village of Cobleskill in Schoharie County — west of Albany — stopped adding fluoride to its drinking water in 2007 after the longtime water superintendent became convinced the additive was contributing to his knee problems. Two years later, the village reversed the move after dentists and doctors complained....
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Time to rinse my mouth. I always have a bad taste after reading the newspaper.
